My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

I am on borrowed time. This morning my damn computer locked up - I think it's because it was over heating. There I was awake at 6am with an erm *cough* erection, as you do, first thing in the morning when *bam* computer locks up! Damn computer! Damn it to hell!

With all my extra time I have I was thinking I might take up crochet or billiards or even learn Russian...that way I can pretend I'm in the KGB and sound all spyish-like.

I'd better get this damn thing fixed or it'll be the longest few weeks of my life - or the shortest as i realise there is a "real world" to venture out into.

I was pulling the aluminium seal off the top of a bottle of apple juice as i sat on the lounge. I ended up with apple juice everywhere. The end.

ooh! ooh! The 3-some is coming up "next week" on the OC!

Note to self: don't get suckered in by advertising again.

All this talk about Maradona getting fat is a bit weird. The guy has gone from being a professional sports star to doing no sport what so ever and to top it all off he has drug problems and mental issues. Hell - he's probably hopped up on those weight-gaining anti-depressants or something!

Let's face it even without the drugs if any sports person ever gives up keeping fit they usually turn to fat pretty quickly if they keep eating the same amount of food that they ate when they trained full time.

They never seem to harass other sports stars - hell half of them are doing weight loss adverts! :|

p.s I realise that there are different views on the same "God", and that my morals are based on laws and my upbringing which is effectively Christian because of where I live and my parents - but fundamentally most mainstream religions have the same good moral values - that was my point.

Do I believe in God? - ?
Does it even matter what I think? - Hell no!

I've delved lightly into this subject before, but someone brought it up, so here we go again.

Organised Religion
I have previously established that I do not like organised religion. Organised religion is more about belonging to a group and partaking in tradition than worshipping any type of higher order of being. So I can say with certainty that I do not like organised religion - nor do I agree with it.

The Bible and/or (insert other mainstream religious text here)
I think it is obvious that all religious (mainstream) texts are and were intended to be taken, more often than not, metaphorically more so than literally. That does not mean that I think they shouldn't be read and followed. Most religious texts, in part, have good morals and ways of living your life by. Of course they're also full of contradictions - but life is full of contradictions. They should be read like a good text or newspaper - read between the lines and get the best out of them that you can Always remembering that there is no truth -just varying shades of grey.

Creationism Verse Big Bang
To me both creationism and the big bang theory can co-exist. One does not necessarily mean the other is wrong. Even God himself had to have some way of creating the universe - it may well have been the big bang. There is always the chance that as we find out more and more about this godforsaken universe we live in that we may be coming closer and closer to our creator.

God and/or (insert whatever deity you feel you need to)
A higher order of being has always been used to describe things we do not know. When there is no other answer "God" is the reason. To me "God" is like a child asking "why?" all of the time and the parent replying "it just is".

Does God exist? Perhaps. Does it matter? Not really.

If you live your life well then no matter what happens during your life you should be accepted into heaven. God is meant to be forgiving - and God knows he has to be. If you believe anything the organised religions claim "their" religion is the only sure fire way of making it into heaven - and with there being so many different religious factions out there at the moment that leaves us with very little chance of picking the right denomination to make it into heaven. So either heaven is empty, in which case, it would be boring as all hell, or heaven is full and God has forgiven all those out there who have jumped on the wrong bandwagon.

I don't believe in God. I believe we are one with the earth. We are part of the animal kingdom. We are no more or no less than every other creature. We die. We get eaten and break down into soil. Our nutrients forms some other life form. Reincarnation? No. Merely the life cycle.

The only trouble with my belief is that it gives so little meaning to life - and for that reason I still cling onto the faint hope that maybe there is something else and that I am wrong. Fence sitting? Perhaps. I think of it more as not believing in God but hoping that there is one so when it all ends there is a reason for it to have begun in the first place more than merely living for the sake of living.

I've seen the life force leave people. I've heard that it is moments like those when you feel most at peace. I do not believe in God - but when I die my last breath will be to Him. When the world has let me down the heavens will be all I have left.

I feel cheated. Cheated by the advertising on channel ten. Firstly they promise softcore sex on "Charmed" - there was a 5 second kiss as the credits rolled on by. THEN they promise a three-some on the OC - again - there was nothing but people doing a lot of crying and pouting. If I'd had wanted to watch pretend rich people pout who by pretending to be rich people actually become rich people I'd have just watched the oscars instead. At least I can count on the oscars for er...ok so i can't count on them for anything but i had a point somewhere.

They need to enforce truth in advertising better.

i was walking passed the pool yesterday and the catholic school principal was there preying on children..er i mean praying for there to be a bright sunny day for their swimming carnival.

"suckers" I thought to myself as it rained down heavily.

The joke was on me - by lunchtime - conveniently in time to walk down the street in the seering heat. The sun was out in full effect.